The Wall Street Journal has written a lengthy story about the longshot presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968.
The report contains a number of eye-opening passages, including a quote from Christine Kramar, the campaign's former ballot access director, who described the atmosphere around RFK Jr. as almost that of a cult.
“It was a cult of personality more than traditional politics,” Kramar explained. “Telling someone how wonderful a person is is not the same as earning their vote.”
Another interesting nugget is the fact that a potluck supper for campaign volunteers was made more "complicated" due to the fact that "several staffers fear the electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens."
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Kennedy's campaign also features many members of his antivaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, and his communications director, Del Bigtree, is a notorious anti-vaccine activist who "spoke at a rally a block from the Capitol on Jan. 6," although Bigtree insists that event was “dedicated to Medical Freedom not to the election of President Trump.”
The Journal reports that the candidate himself has a "freewheeling style" that often requires campaign staff to do some cleanup work.
"During the campaign’s virtual Christmas party, held over Zoom, Kennedy said that he was high before someone interrupted to clarify that the candidate had just left the dentist and was still feeling the effects of anesthesia," notes the Journal.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stefanie Spear, however, defended the campaign as "a group of intelligent, committed, and successful professionals who have already made history."
